. >> >> chuck haig el wants president obama's defense strategy reevaluated. wanting to know if the assumptions underlaying the strategy is still valid in light of the budget circumstance a reduced presence in europe and a continued focus on the mideast. the pentagon is facing more than a half trillion dollars in cuts over the next decade. >> >> demonstrators took to the steps of san francisco city hall to call for a stop to funding cuts for hiv and aid says programs, lead by members of the group organizing for america, formed to support president obama's legislative aim. speakers urged congress to respect what they call the will of the people. >> the people of the united states made clear this last november that we value investments in our communities and in our country and that includes funding hiv prevention and care services. >> >> reporter: cording to other speakers, cuts from the sequester will result in fewer aids tests. less medicine and an increase in the spread of the disease. it will be friday before the faa reveals which small airport towers will b

. >> >> chuck haig el wants president obama's defense strategy reevaluated.ting to know if the assumptions underlaying the strategy is still valid in light of the budget circumstance a reduced presence in europe and a continued focus on the mideast. the pentagon is facing more than a half trillion dollars in cuts over the next decade. >> >> demonstrators took to the steps of san francisco city hall to call for a stop to funding cuts for hiv and aid says programs, lead by members of the group organizing for america, formed to support president obama's legislative aim. speakers urged congress to respect what they call the will of the people. >> the people of the united states made clear this last november that we value investments in our communities and in our country and that includes funding hiv prevention and care services. >> >> reporter: cording to other speakers, cuts from the sequester will result in fewer aids tests. less medicine and an increase in the spread of the disease. it will be friday before the faa reveals which small airport towers will be cl

. >>> in the nefrns chuck haig surveillance meeting with hamid karzai this morning part of hagel's firstverseas visit. earlier this morning karzai lashed out at the u.s. suggesting that the u.s. is working to keep coalition troops in his country past 2014. >>> in italy, cardinals preparing for tuesday's papal conclave held mass today each in a church assigned to each one of them in rome. many vatican watchers are warning the divisions in the church could make for a long conclave. >>> 26, the 40-mile trek from newtown to washington, d.c. on saturday honoring the 26 victims of the sandy hook emmen tri school massacre trying to raise awareness. >>> tiger woods has a four-stroke lead heading into the final round of the cadillac championship in florida. woods has never lost by that much. >>> time now for the weather and over to ginger zee. >> good morning, everybody. we want to start with blizzard warnings in kansas and nebraska coming from the same storm that brought the snow to denver. time lapse, watch this. it goes from nothing to almost a half foot. in some places even more. more than a

taliban claims responsibility for the kabul bombing calling it a message for defense secretary chuck haig whole's in the capital. charlie d'agata is also there this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, anthony. yes, the suicide bomber that struck here in kabul this morning struck outside the afghan ministry of defense. it's a few blocks from where the defense secretary was. we felt here that he and those traveling with him were taken to a shelter until the all clear. afghan military officials say just after 9:00 a.m. local time a suicide bomber on a bicycle rode up to within 30 yards of the main gate of the ministry before blowing himself up. gunfire rang out after the explosion. police say at least nine people were killed and another 14 woulded. it's not the first time that main entrance has been hit nor the first time it was struck by a person on a bicycle. u.s. officials say defense secretary chuck hagel who arrived here in kabul last night was nowhere near the blast. he was at a safe location at a facility, the international assisted security force, but he and thos

joint news conference with the new secretary of defense, chuck hagel, that was expected tonight centerpiece of hagel's first foreign trip. haig did his best to explain the cancellation. i told the president it was not true that the united states was unilaterally working with the taliban in trying to negotiate anything. i was once a politician, so i can understand the kind of pressures that especially leaders of countries are always under. >> hagel was trying to make a point that karzai has his own domestic politics to worry about and that's true. u.s. officials klain the conference was scrapped because of a security threat. the afghan dees my that it comes as the united states and afghan are negotiating the size of the force in afghanistan after 2014 remember, it's force that karzai's life may literally depend on. >>> north and south korea are each staging their own war games this week, raising concerns they maybe moving closer to the real thing. in an extraordinary display of saber rattling, pyongyang says it canceled the armistice that ended the korean war and threatened the nuclear strike on america, all in response to u.n